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AOL and Google have taken their instant messaging partnership to a new level with complete interoperability among AIM, Gmail and Google Talk. Gmail users have been able to access their AIM account through Google Talk since 2007, but AIM accounts coul...

Another week, another Google acquisition. This time, it's LabPixies, a company Google has worked with to create many of the widgets on its personalized portal, iGoogle. LabPixies has been acquired for an undisclosed sum and will help expand iGoogle a...

There's no doubt Google has a sense of humor -- its excellent April Fools jokes are a testament to that. But there's a wealth of funnies that can found any time of the year too. Here we pull together a handy list of Google "Easter eggs" that you can ...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. With so many online productivity tools at our disposal, there's never been...

Outside of social networks, start pages like My Yahoo, AOL, and iGoogle are among the stickiest in terms of occupying users' time. Thus, it makes sense that the latter is moving to make its service a lot more social in an effort to take up even more ...

Google Reader has been adding more and more social features recently, like the commenting on shared items options they added back in March. Today, they announced some updates that continue this push with several new social features. The most social o...

iGoogle is Google's popular homepage product, where users can create custom homepages with widgets and unique backgrounds. Google released iGoogle gaming themes last month, but this new discovery might be a whole lot more interesting: there is an iGo...

Google's personalized portal iGoogle started out as an ugly duckling, with a bland initial theme and not much to improve it, but over time hundreds of themes were created; either by the community or as Google official sets. The latest such set is ori...

Forget paper? That may be a little drastic (and presumptuous), but the Gmail blog has an incredibly tongue-in-cheek post that details how paper, even in our modern times, has been the scrap pad of choice for quickly jotting down tasks. Google seems t...

As rumored last week, Yahoo Mail has launched an application platform, allowing developers to build apps that add functionality to users' inboxes. The platform isn’t wide open just yet – as Yahoo notes in a blog entry, it’s in testing with a few part...

This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services. Although Google recently pushed out some seemingly unpopular changes to its personalized homepage service – iGoogle – it’s currently leadi...

This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services. Do you still use a traditional start page? With alternatives like RSS readers, social networks, and news aggregators, services like My Yah...

Last week, iGoogle launched a big re-design, which was praised both here and on many other blogs of so-called early adopters. The launch of “Canvas View” - which many of us were familiar with through Google Reader – seemed like something that would m...

If you use Google Reader, you’re probably familiar with “Canvas View,” a way to read the full text of all your new feeds from multiple sources on one Web page. Today, that view is coming to iGoogle, allowing you to view Google Reader and dozens of ot...

DEFCON, the “underground hacker convention” currently underway in its sixteenth gathering at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, gave a mic to SecTheory CEO Robert Hansen (not to be confused with R. Hanssen, the former FBI agent infamous...

The latest update to iGoogle's sandbox promised more social capabilities for developers, with the biggest enhancement being the support for Open Social applications in activity streams. This version of iGoogle is now available for limited testing, pu...

Promoting Websites can be a difficult task. Unless you are Internet famous or a social media expert, it takes a bit of marketing strategy to get your name and brand out there. There are a number of methods that you can use to advertise your website, ...

This week, TripTouch, a travel mashup which Mashable associated editor Paul Glazowski first covered a few months ago, launched a new widget for a couple of popular start pages that allows users quick access to the service. Once you add this to your p...

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